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Internat. J. Math. Math. Sci. Vol. 24, No. 12 (2000) 851–855 S0161171200003471 ©Hindawi Publishing Corp. CERTAIN REMARKS ON A CLASS OF EVOLUTION QUASI-VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES A. H. SIDDIQI and PAMMY MANCHANDA (Received 17 May 1999 and in revised form 9 March 2000) Abstract. We prove two existence theorems, one for evolution quasi-variational inequal- ities and the other for a time-dependent quasi-variational inequality modeling the quasi- static problem of elastoplasticity with combined kinetic-isotropic hardening. Keywords and phrases. Evolution quasi-variational inequalities, coercive, weakly conver- gent, weakly continuous, weak topology. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 49J40, 47A63, 65K10. 1. Introduction. A comprehensive updated account of the elliptic quasi- and evo- lution quasi-variational inequalities is presented by Baiocchi and Capelo [1]. Evolution variational inequalities have been investigated by Lions and Stampacchia [9], Brézis [2, 3], Duvaut and Lions [4], and Lions [8]. A related general problem of Moreau’s sweep- ing process can be found in [10]. Elliptic variational and quasi-variational inequalities are discussed in [1] along with the references on evolution variational inequalities. In 1994, Mosco [11] formulated the implicit Signorini problem in terms of the ellip- tic quasi-variational inequality problem and indicated many open problems including ˇ the numerical methods and the probable outlines of the method. Recently, Kocvara and Outrata [6] and Outrata and Zowe [12] have studied numerical solutions of quasi- variational inequalities using techniques of nonsmooth optimization. The evolution quasi-variational inequality modeling the evolving shape of a g